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April 6, 2012

U.S. Gun Lobby Could Help End Mexico Chaos

Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald

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The NRA and U.S. gun manufacturers have the right to defend the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment provision allowing Americans to keep and bear arms. But the Second Amendment doesn't say that Americans have the right to buy bazookas, or AK-47s, or other military-style weapons, or to purchase dozens of them and sell them to whoever they want.

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